The anger on Fang Mingshan's face flashed and disappeared, but looking at Xiao Wu and the others, he didn't dare to make a move.
"What's the use of a woman like you running a company? Women all get married eventually, and in the end, wouldn't it only be safe if our Fang family manages it?"
"I really... overestimated you." A trace of disappointment flashed across Fang Qingci's face. "Fine, keep on dreaming."
"Let me tell you! Call your uncle over! I am his mother! He must provide for me! And he has to give half of the company to his younger brother!" Old Lady Fang couldn't hold back anymore.
Fang Qingci looked straight at her. "Uncle has been sending you alimony every month according to legal requirements. If you think it's unfair, go and sue him."
Old Lady Fang was furious and wanted to wail a few times, but she suddenly remembered that almost every household in the village was on very bad terms with them now.
"Done acting? I still wanted to watch," Fang Qingci said with interest.
"You, you, you animal!"
"This is bad! Boss Fang! You need to go quickly! Old Fang is arguing with someone!" Someone came running hurriedly.
"What did he say?" Fang Qingci hurried toward the fields.
"Sigh, it was supposed to be a goodwill visit, but some rascal insisted on picking a fight, yelling about how Old Boss Fang's windbreaker costs over ten thousand bucks, while they only got a little over a thousand, and then..."
"And then what?"
The subordinate could hardly hold back a laugh. "And then Old Boss Fang said..."
"Old man, you even know what a windbreaker is? Later on, I'll let you experience a submachine gun."
Fang Qingci was utterly speechless. Pausing for just a moment, she suddenly stopped in her tracks.
"Let's go, Boss Fang."
Fang Qingci, however, seemed deep in thought. She looked back and smiled. "I understand now."
"Huh?"
"Pass down the order: everyone returns, and the village subsidies are suspended."
"Ah?"
"Just do it."
Little Hei returned to Fang Zhiyi's side. "Well, she has learned about ninety percent of it now. That method of using others' force against them is exactly the same as yours back in the day."
Fang Zhiyi smiled. "Otherwise, with such a large family business, how could she protect it?"
Little Hei, however, said, "But... she seems a bit more ruthless than you."
"Hmm?"
Fang Mingshan did not expect that his daughter, who had already left, would return again and solemnly hand them a card. "This is our company's subsidy for the elderly in the village. I'll leave it to you to distribute."
Liu Wenxia was overjoyed. "Good, good! We will definitely handle it well. Don't you know your dad and me?" She snatched the bank card from Fang Mingshan's hand and treasured it by tucking it into her bosom. Seeing this action, Fang Qingci revealed an expression of relief.
After Fang Zhiyi and the others left, the rascal from earlier became the target of public criticism. Everyone complained that it was because of his nonsense that Boss Fang was offended. The rascal refused to accept this, and the two sides started a fierce argument, which then escalated into a physical fight.
Right in the middle of the fight, someone brought news that the subsidy money had been given to Fang Mingshan and the others, saying they were supposed to distribute it.
So people hurried toward the Fang family's house one after another.
"What do you mean your subsidy money! This is the money my daughter gave me out of filial piety!" Liu Wenxia shouted with her hands on her hips.
"Liu Wenxia! Boss Fang clearly gave you the money to distribute!"
"Bullshit! Which of your dog eyes saw that?"
"Liu Wenxia, you'll die a horrible death! Take out the money!"
"On what grounds? I won't give it!"
At this time in the car, Fang Zhiyi was staring blankly at the scenery outside the window.
"Dad, do you think I did the right thing?" Fang Qingci broke the silence.
Fang Zhiyi continued looking out the window. A few seconds later, he suddenly turned his head in confusion. "Did you call me?"
Fang Qingci nodded. "Yes, Dad."
Fang Zhiyi was a little surprised.
Seeing his expression, Fang Qingci didn't say anything more about it and just continued speaking to herself. "If they have changed for the better, this is their chance to distribute the money evenly to the elderly in the village, which could also ease their relationship with everyone... If they are still the same as before, then they brought it upon themselves."
Fang Zhiyi chuckled. "Then do you hope they have changed or not?"
Fang Qingci bit her lip. "I... don't know. I will never forget the things they have done to me."
As she spoke, her phone rang. Fang Qingci took one glance and hung up.
It rang again, and she hung up again, then simply blocked the number.
But immediately after, another number sent a text message.
"Daughter, did you tell them about the money? Our family doesn't owe them anything. Everyone lives by their own abilities, so why should you give the money to them?"
"They even came to ask your mom and me for it, but your mom didn't give it to them. We will keep this money safe for you first, so just rest assured."
"From your behavior, we can tell that you have been led astray by your uncle and have become stupid. Why give the money you earned to outsiders? Isn't it better to give it to your own family?"
"Your younger brother doesn't have a wife yet. How about you pay to buy him a house and a car in the city when the time comes? Your grandparents are getting old too, so they can just live in the countryside. Your mom and I can come over to take care of you, and we can even help you manage the company."
"Zhaodi, say something. Your mom said that when your younger brother gets married, she will find a partner for you, and then you can marry into their family and enjoy a good life. By then, your younger brother will also be mature enough to help you manage the company. It's only safe when it's our own family."
"Don't listen to your uncle about everything. He is an outsider; we are your real parents. We only adopted you out to him back then because our family was having a hard time. Just now, your grandparents have decided to remove him from the family genealogy and cut ties with him!"
"You couldn't be this insensible, right? That would really break Mom and Dad's hearts. Being so unfilial like this, you will be gossiped about by the Fang family relatives."
.....
Fang Qingci looked at the text messages on her phone and laughed helplessly. "Dad, would you believe it if I said that for every word he typed, he had to ask Fang Tianqi if he spelled it right?"
Fang Zhiyi rolled his eyes. "They spoke so earnestly, aren't you moved?"
"They... don't deserve it." Fang Qingci turned off her phone.
From that day on, the Fang family's life in the village became even harder. If their door wasn't smashed, their chickens were stolen, and even their windows were broken by children. Fang Tianqi was cornered and beaten up several times, but he couldn't even explain clearly who had hit him.
Fang Mingshan and Liu Wenxia were determined to go to the city to enjoy a good life, but unfortunately, Fang Qingci ignored them. They bought tickets and went directly to the city, but the city was so big, and nobody knew where Fang Qingci was. After spending all their money, they went back with their tails between their legs.
"Here is a piece of international news. Recently, the police in Country X cracked a case of human organ trafficking. The currently identified victims include a certain Mr. Gao..."
Fang Qingci turned off the TV and turned her head to look at the sky outside.
She heard that her grandmother had a fight with Liu Wenxia and, in a fit of anger, drank poison and died. In order to seize her money, Fang Mingshan physically assaulted his own father, leading to the old man's accidental death. All of this was witnessed by the Wu family, who immediately called the police.
Liu Wenxia didn't want to take care of the slow-witted Fang Tianqi, so she secretly took the money and ran away.
This family really is....
And then there was her uncle—no, her own father, who was just as unreliable. He had taken his old comrades and gone off vacationing all over the place... Was he really that at ease leaving her all alone?
Fang Qingci turned her head to look to the side at a painting she had done, a skill she had taught herself in her free time. The canvas depicted a little girl surrounded by several demons fanned out around her. Behind the girl, however, a door had swung open, and standing in the doorway was a man with messy hair.
My Father
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
